Is anyone running WhatsApp without google play? I just migrated Graphene OS phones, but on the new one WhatsApp messages are not received when the application is not in the foreground.
I would prefer not installing sand boxed google play. IIRC, on my old device, which I don’t have anymore, since FCM was not available WhatsApp opened a background websocket for push. This post seems to suggest there is a setting in WhatsApp for this, but I can’t find it and I don’t recall ever setting this on the old phone. I have "Allow background usage" on in the app's battery settings.
From the log, I'm assuming WhatsApp never starts the service as a foreground service:
GooglePlayServicesUtil: com.whatsapp requires the Google Play Store, but it is missing.
...
ActivityManager: Stopping service due to app idle: ... com.whatsapp/.messaging.MessageService
What am I missing here? Maybe WhatsApp doesn't support the websocket mode anymore?